Intellectual skills and creativity in a group of adolescents with high intellectual abilities: an approach to their cognitive profiles.

Abstract

The objective was to describe the behavior of the cognitive profiles of adolescents with high intellectual abilities, based on the analysis of intellectual abilities and creativity, in a preparatory school in Morelos. The sample consisted of 103 students from the first semester. The techniques used were Raven's Progressive Matrices Test; EFAI and PIC-J (to evaluate intellectual abilities and creativity). The main results were high development of verbal intelligence, and spatial skills contributed to the fairly high level of non-verbal intelligence as well. The development of graphic creative potential was highlighted. Narrative creativity was a relevant area of opportunity. The cognitive exploration of the students confirmed that it is a very diverse group, with the presence of profiles of heterogeneous potentialities.